The longer the delay the more difficult it will be to brute force a password. It is especially important to make it a long time between attempts because people can likely get around the delay to an extent (via changing their IP address after each attempt - but they would have limited numbers of IP addresses).

It would also not be feasible to lock out accounts after 5 attempts as people do not need to have an associated email address nor secret question with their account. 

People are greedy and will likely fall victim to him when he offers a good deal on those gift cards. There have been countless Starbucks gift card sellers who are buying gift cards via stolen credit cards who eventually end up scamming and many people end up stupidly willing to send first despite having multiple negatives.

I am not sure why newbies can create self moderated threads however I imagine it has to do with the lack of newbie jail and the fact that the forum doesn't moderate scams. Newbies need to be able to lock threads for once they are done selling something (once what they were selling has sold).

This is done however your negative trust should be sufficient (or were you removed from default trust when CITM was removed)

Edit: it looks like your negative trust still shows up by default.

The 45 second wait time between login attempts is not going to change and is the same for everyone. It is to prevent people from trying to brute force passwords.

I don't see the reason you want to keep this secret. Especially considering the fact that you gave the person negative trust already.

I would like to know who chronsky purchased the account from so it can be established who exactly is selling these allegedly hacked accounts.

The two different kinds of badges are separate. You get an expert badge by being nominated by another expert and being confirmed by an admin. The same is true for Bitcoin core dev badge.

If a core dev were to resign then he would need to receive a nomination to receive an expert badge.

I gave you negative trust for your scammy/spammy loan requests. What could possibly make you think that I would give you this loan?

I have a question. What would happen if the person who quotes my signed message happens to hack my account? Couldn't they simply change both my post and the post they used to quote my signed message?

I think it would probably be better to have a thread setup by an admin that has a specific message that needs to be signed and uses custom settings so that posts cannot be edited or deleted (similar to the auction sub forum)

It was not zedicus. It was more recently and it was from someone whose identity that I am fairly certain is different then zedicus. However someone i believe is the same person who purchased zedicus faked a scam immediately after buying an account from me but he ended up fake resolving the scam.

 
I am not 100% sure this was their intention however based on their actions immediately after they bought it and the fact that they tried to get me to buy the accounts back at a discount (which would very much make it look like it was me spamming) after they were banned makes me believe this was his goal. 

I think that people need to learn how to take the proper precautions when trading with Bitcoin, both on the forum and elsewhere.

Sure a lot of newbies will attempt to scam however this is not always the case. My first post was creating a sales thread. I probably shouldn't say this (it might give people the impression that it is safe to send first to newbies) but around the same day I created this account someone was willing to send first to me for an account - he offered to send 1/2 first then I send the account then he sends the second half, I told him that he can send the entire amount first or we can use escrow, he sent first and I followed through.

If people know how to protect themselves from getting scammed then it doesn't matter what level account is creating threads in the marketplace.

It shouldn't be too difficult to tell if an account is sold, especially if the posting habits changes substantially. It is also not difficult to tell when an account is sold, especially considering the fact that most people who are going to get banned for signature spam are not going to go out of their way to hide the fact that their account is banned.

Edit: the fact that I have a reputation of putting in a lot of effort into what I post likely is going to give me additional credibility when it comes to these decisions.

Also if you are curious, yes people have likely tried to get me banned by buying multiple accounts and then immediately started posting large amounts of shit posts in a very short amount of time. I was notified by the person that purchased them that they were banned for 14 days within an hour (they had probably made ~150 one liners in that time) and no none of my other accounts that I own were affected. 

Why would anyone ever consider lend to you? You defaulted on a $9 loan months ago despite having the funds to repay the loan.

Denied. You are spamming the lending section with similar type loans. You need to stop this before you get negative trust from someone.

What can you offer as collateral? I will send you a PM

I have sold accounts in the past where the buyer immediately started making dozens of spammy posts, and was quickly banned. None of my other accounts were affected. I think it is pretty fair to say that BadBear is pretty good at detecting when an account was sold.

Are you willing to accept escrow? I assume the answer is no

I confirm this. The miner will be sent out tomorrow evening and this thread will remain unlocked until MCHouston can confirm that he received it.

PM sent

edit: the miner has bee sold to MCHouston and will be shipped out tomorrow evening. I will leave then open until MCHouston receives the miner.

You would make more money if you just used faucet money as you would not need to pay for multiple tx fees nor any interest (or a tip in the case I referenced). Not only that but you don't need to repay faucet money

I am not removing my trust. You are engaging in too many scammy behaviors

If you have such a good strategy to make so much money, why don't you do it again, instead of asking for a .02 loan? You would surely make more money exploiting this strategy yourself rather then sell it to others